Mozilla Labs wants to track every click.
Representatives of Mozilla Labs, the Mozilla research and development division, expressed the desire that 1% of Firefox users voluntarily install bugs on their computers and send logs to the organization with a record of all their actions. According to the developers, studying the activity of users will help them to make Firefox even better.
“We need to know how people use our products and how they use the web,” said Aza Raskin, head of User Expirience at Mozilla Labs, “that's what the Test Pilot program was for.” As an example, he cites an increase in the size of the “Back” key in the third version. Raskin says that it was the study of the activity of users that helped to understand that people more often press the “Back” key than the “Forward” key.
So far, the Test Pilot bug is under development. It is planned to implement it as a browser extension, which will offer the user to answer a series of questions about himself, as well as select tests in which he wishes to participate. The program will be released with open source.
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The developers guarantee that the preservation of privacy is their main task. For example, the names of the sites visited will necessarily be encrypted. All information in the Mozilla database will be in an aggregated, anonymous form. The company also plans to open this base for other researchers.
via PC World
“We need to know how people use our products and how they use the web,” said Aza Raskin, head of User Expirience at Mozilla Labs, “that's what the Test Pilot program was for.” As an example, he cites an increase in the size of the “Back” key in the third version. Raskin says that it was the study of the activity of users that helped to understand that people more often press the “Back” key than the “Forward” key.
So far, the Test Pilot bug is under development. It is planned to implement it as a browser extension, which will offer the user to answer a series of questions about himself, as well as select tests in which he wishes to participate. The program will be released with open source.
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The developers guarantee that the preservation of privacy is their main task. For example, the names of the sites visited will necessarily be encrypted. All information in the Mozilla database will be in an aggregated, anonymous form. The company also plans to open this base for other researchers.
via PC World
Source: https://habr.com/ru/post/50277/
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